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as you forgot about living in a greenhouse. Read this [reuters.com] and this [helsinginsanomat.fi] and then go see this [thedayaftertomorrow.com]. I keep thinking that a cabin up above the artic circle and survivalist training is a better idea with every passing day.

Except ourselves! Mmmm...tastes like chicken! I'm pretty certain that humans will be on the menu if a catastrophic climate change occurs. Aside from that...it'll be interesting to see if the reindeer survive and the polar bears, etc. If not, we can all go hunting and looting at the local abandoned grocery or prepare to migrate south.

Well, as the weather warms, various plants and animals that can survive/thrive in the new climate will migrate north. It would help if the warming trend is gradual enough that the migration can happen naturally, otherwise there will only be little man-created oases of transplanted life and they will have a hard time getting established. Of course, in a century or so, nature will catch up without human assistance.

Sure, will we put them on an Air Canada or SAS flight to the warmer climates? This weird weather may be many things, but gradual in terms of geologic and evolutionary time is not one of them. I'm rooting for the planet myself. If it were gradual, they wouldn't be calling it global warming. Prepare.

As long as the plants and animals can move with the changing weather, no evolution or geology is required. As the weather warms, the area that specific species are found will change, the boundary away from the equator will thrive and grow while the boundary closer to the equator will die off. Species with a narrow survival zone (relative to the rate of climate change) won't make the leap to the newly hospitable area fast enough, and species that have critical dependencies on other species that can't move fast enough will also fail, but some more tolerant species will move just fine. Air Canada on the other hand might not survive the month.

Yeah, they say that about every airline that declares chap 11 and still flies. I want to read what you've been reading so that I, too, can naively cling to the belief that this is all totally gradual and normal....all while the polar cap is melting in the space of a few years...